#CoVID

Sumon Chakrabarti

TorontoIDDoc

The South Asian community I am part of has a number of overlapping risk factors that increases the risk of both acquisition of COVID and also at risk for having

Dan Ⓥ

nderssonD

Meh, not much happening.1. Netherlands Gov't resigned. 2. Merkel steps down. 3. Estonia PM missing. 4. Italian government collapsed. 5. Russia's government has resigned, Putin plans huge constitutional shake-up6.

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

This appears to be an interesting study and would be consistent with other studies showing a 4x-5x reduction in risk of (re)infection after previous exposure (i.e. there's immunity, but not

Barry Ritholtz

ritholtz

Very interesting @WSJ about latest understanding regarding Covid-19 transmission: Six months into the coronavirus crisis, there’s a growing consensus about a central question: How do people become infected?https://www.wsj.com/articles/how

Olaf Dreyer

olafdreyer

A long(ish) and technical thread about the recent rise of #COVID cases in Germany. The doubling time went from 33.2 days to 9.5 days.The question is why? One thing changed

Kristen Thometz

KristenThometz

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is set to give his daily COVID-19 press briefing momentarily. Meanwhile, state health officials reported 9,757 new and probable cases of COVID-19 and 238 additional deaths -

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

It is erroneous to suggest that all 2020 excess death can be rolled into "COVID-19 death toll"The article reeks of a messaging technique called "priming", which prepares ppl to accept

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

We’ve reached another sad milestone in this pandemic. The US has surpassed a record of more than 60k Covid-19 hospitalizations for the 2nd consecutive day. (1/12) But there is some

Carolyn McClanahan

CarolynMcC

Little thread on why you want to delay getting sick from #COVID as long as possible or hopefully never.#1. A vaccine is in the works. We don't know how well

Alabama Public Health

ALPublicHealth

THREAD: Rumors & misinformation can easily circulate within communities during a crisis. Pictured is an example of a rumor or misinformation we have seen recently. There are multiple posts on

Ed Tubb

EdTubb

/1 A thread of some takeaways from the new @TOPublicHealth dataset, released today: Of 287 patients ever intubated, 33 are currently vented, 133 are resolved or no longer vented, and

Dr. Sharrelle Barber

HealthEquityDoc

A piece I wrote for @TheLancetInfDis. Racism is DEADLY & GLOBAL. From Brazil to the U.K. it has a devastating impact on Black lives."What is happening in the USA is

Jeff (BPredict)

BPredict

I've had a few followers ask me my thoughts on the Sturgis study. It's gone viral because it tells a story the media likes ("bad" people got COVID for doing

Geoffrey York

geoffreyyork

South African science was crucial in helping UK discover its new variants; but then the UK govt claimed (wrongly) that the SA variant is more transmissible. No evidence to support

Andisheh Nouraee

andishehnouraee

In just 15 days the total number of #COVID19 cases in Georgia is up 49%, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the state’s data visualization map of cases.

Valentina Barca

ValentinaBarca_

We have seen great innovations on Government #cashtransfer #payment systems with #Covid19 - and great resources coming out. We have tried to summarise emerging practices/insights here with @RodolfoBeazley @GSMAm4d @DFID_Inclusive

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